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Five People Indicted in February Murders of Two Pearl River Friends

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 14, 2018

COVINGTON—District Attorney Warren Montgomery announces that a St. Tammany Parish grand jury indicted four people Thursday (June 14) in the kidnapping and murders of two Pearl River residents in February and another person with assisting after the fact. The defendants and their charges are:

• Jason David Landry, 18, of Slidell, two counts of first degree murder, two counts of aggravated kidnapping, and two counts of conspiracy to commit armed robbery with a firearm,

• Brittney Michelle Savell, 26, of Slidell, two counts of second degree murder, two counts of aggravated kidnapping, and two counts of conspiracy to commit armed robbery with a firearm,

• Derrion Joseph Lemoine, 23, of Big Spring, Texas, two counts of second degree murder, two counts of aggravated kidnapping, two counts of conspiracy to commit armed robbery with a firearm, obstruction of justice by tampering with evidence, and possession of a firearm or carrying a concealed weapon by a convicted felon,

• Steven Lee Olivieri, 27, of Slidell, first degree murder, obstruction of justice by tampering with evidence, possession of a firearm or carrying a concealed weapon by a convicted felon, and manufacture or possession of a bomb,

• James Keith Mitchell, 30, of Slidell, accessory after the fact and manufacture or possession of a bomb,

Landry, Savell, Lemoine, and Olivieri are accused in the murders of Reagan Elizabeth Day, 20, of Pearl River, and her friend, Dustin Ross Hartline, 28, of Pearl River. Day and Hartline were reported missing Feb. 16, and their bodies were found nearly three weeks later in Day’s car, submerged in the East Pearl River. Both had been shot in the head.